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3yo potty training regression... help!

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Jannt86 · 26/04/2021 03:54

Just that really. My 3YO potty trained really easy at just turned 2. We really thought we'd done it and for months she never had more than the odd accident then gradually over the past few weeks she's just regressed so much it's ridiculous. It started with just a few accidents but it's progressed to several accidents a day and sometimes just refusing to even tell us she's wet herself. We've tried a sticker chart and it worked for a couple of days but now she just doesn't really care if she gets one or not. We try reminding her to go every so often but she's stubborn and never liked being asked to go. Often we can tell she needs to go but she's refusing especially if there's something better to do. I'm really trying not to get cross at her but I am getting irritated at her because I'm at my wits end. I really don't know how to deal with it because it's basically her choosing not to prioritise it. I have 2 days midweek off with her and am really tempted to go back to basics and tell her we aren't putting anything on her bottom half or going out anywhere until she's got this but I'm not sure it'll help as she definitely knows what to do. How do I make her see that this is unacceptable without shaming her/punishing her? It's so frustrating and even upsetting when we thought we'd cracked it Sad

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Barleysugar86 · 26/04/2021 04:45

We have just gone through the same with our 3yr old after six months of being perfectly potty trained- for us it coincided with the last two months of my pregnancy for my second child, and I think there may have been some hidden anxiety there from him. I do sympathise so much- it got as bad as six accidents daily at one point, including solids.
We purchased a rewards chart from Amazon that was ten magnet people you could put onto a bus, and a bucket of play food, and for every successful potty trip we asked our toddler to put a person onto the bus and at ten people he could take a piece of the play food as his reward. We hadn't tried any other reward charts but he's gotten really into this one and will come back from the potty now exclaiming 'I went on the potty- I put a person on the bus!'. A month later from buying this and we are down to one or two accidents a week so it has improved massively- (although I have given birth in this time too which I think may have helped). Is there anything that might be playing on her mind?

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